Why isn't this a date?

[Mark Smith]

Just a thought,  but are you sure there are no 'non-printing' chars  
in amongst the dates?

Best,

Mark

On 24 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Mikey wrote:

> If I
> put "07/01/77" into thisCrap
> put thisCrap is a date
>
> I get false
>
> put "07/01/1977" into thisCrap
> put thisCrap is a date
>
> I get false
>
> Indeed there are no date operators that seem to work on thisCrap.
> This is at least a little annoying as it means I have to manually
> massage all the dates I extract from a file I'm working on.
>
> Yes, I chose the name so we can have a good laugh about how there are
> lot of things that don't work on thisCrap.
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